Huawei’s Liu Rui on Moving AI Assistants From Chatboxes to Proactive Service

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In a Leiphone interview, Liu Rui, founding director of Huawei’s Xiaoyi large model application laboratory, argues that AI assistants should move from passive responses toward proactive service while keeping users in control. He describes Aura’s continuous video interaction and Xiaoyi’s use of personal context and long- and short-term memory. Liu also argues that improving foundation models absorb application features, requiring product teams to adapt while focusing on genuine user needs.

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